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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia (Emilia)
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Variations Last name: Pignata
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
Ancient and noble family, originally from Forlì, first named de 'Salaffi, then de' Budi Salffi, and transplanted to Ravenna by Giacomo di Benvenuto around 1370. Giacomo, captain of the armies of the Duke of Urbino under Julius II in 1509. Gaspare knight of the Order of Santo Stefano di Toscana with command of his master in 1658. The order was founded by Cosimo I de 'Medici on March 15, 1562, in imitation of the Gerosolimitano order, with the dual purpose of defending trade in the Tyrrhenian Sea of Italy from the Barbary pirates, and to free the Christians from the slavery of the Ottoman power. The visit to its marinas writes the historian Galluzzi had made Cosimo know the importance and the need to watch them from the Turks' incursions. He therefore imagined that he was building a Military Order, with which he would achieve the same purpose without being ...
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BlazonPignatta
Variations Last name: Pignata
1. Coat of arms of family: Pignatta o Pignata (Ravenna)
Language of the text: Italiano
D'azzurro, ad una pignatta d'oro colma di monete dello stesso, col capo d'argento alla croce biforcata di rosso.
Citato in "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol. secondo, pag. 338, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1890.
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